Thursday, November 17, 2011

OOH, I'M SO READY

I can hardly begin to sum up all the cool things going on in Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels' "Sock It To Me Baby." Starting with the abrupt "Sock!" followed by Ryder's "Oooh, I'm sooo ready!" it just gets better and better. Before the first verse, the brief slightly fuzzed out riff, and then Ryder's gravelly voice with the first four words of the actual lyrics "Honey with the beehive...," which has gotta be one of the best opening phrases of any rock n' soul song of that era or any other. Followed by "every time you kiss me, hits me like a punch," his phrasing could not be better. And the band? Holy shit, even though it doesn't take a virtuoso to play this stuff, the way it comes together, the bass, the drums, the hand claps, the random party atmosphere vocals buried in the mix; hell even the slide whistle (which is normally tacky as hell) fits. This is one of those songs that is just too good to ignore. No matter how many times you've heard "Devil With a Blue Dress On," this is the sucker that puts Ryder, at least on this song, on a whole different level of some of his blue eyed soul contemporaries. (Can't you just see him leaving the stage, all sweaty, saying "Suck on that!" to the Righteous Brothers?)

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